Reception Class

EYFS Curriculum Key

July 2025 Round-up

June 2025 Round-up

Our topic for Summer 2 is 'Everyone Explore', Reception have loved discovering what life's like in different places around the world. No doubt you've all got the seven continents song going round and round in your heads!

CL - Reception have been talking about the similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries, drawing on their personal experiences, knowledge from stories and non-fiction texts and observations of maps. The new wall graphics in the hall helped us with this.

PD - In PE this half term, we're consolidating the fundamental movement skills we've been working on all year. We're also busy working on a nursery rhyme dance unit. Mr Aspden arranged a fun 'Health Week' for us all and we took part in ultimate frisbee, UV dodgeball, Taekwondo and our very first Sports Day.

PSE - In our PSHE lessons, we've discussed how we look after our wellbeing through exercise, meditation and eating a balanced diet. We're all independent learners who can manage our own hygiene needs and understand the importance of making healthy choices.

L - The children have wowed us with their sentence writing in preparation for Year One. We know that every super sentence should be spoken aloud first, begin with a capital letter, have letters formed correctly (sitting on the line), we use our phonics to help us segment to spell, add a finger space between words, finish it all off with a full stop and read it back to check it makes sense! There's so much to remember, but we're practicing lots and enjoying writing for many different purposes.

M - We've been doing lots of counting beyond 20 in Maths, spotting number patterns including double facts and whether numbers are odd, or even. The children love saying. . . "Oohh, that's odd!" when a quantity can't be shared into two equal groups.

UTW - We took our learning outside the classroom with a class trip to Blackpool Zoo. We've been scientists in forest school, making boats to experiment with different materials and their properties, testing which float and which sink. The children have been busy helping Mrs Mylecraine with her planting, and we're excited to find out the results of the Wyre in Bloom competition.

EAD - We walked to Thornton Library and joined 'Mama G' for an exciting session of songs and stories, encouraging us to take pride in who we are. A big thank you to Francis from Lancashire Music Service for our fun lessons on the djembe drums.

May 2025 Round-up

Our topic for Summer 1 was 'Amazing Animals' and our little learners have had so much fun learning and playing.

CL - We've been retelling the story What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson, the children were fantastic performing in front of the whole school and their friends and families in our class assembly.

PD - We've enjoyed lots of indoor and outdoor PE lessons, experimenting with moving our bodies like farm, ocean and zoo animals.

PSE - Our discussions taught us that we all have different beliefs and celebrations, what characteristics make a good friend, and how we need to listen to one another.

L - The class are well underway with Phase 4 phonics, reading longer words, compound words and words with suffixes -ing and -ed. You can find a list of Tricky words here: Tricky Words The children have discovered lots of new vocabulary and fun facts reading both fiction and non-fiction texts about animals.

M - EYFS are working on the composition of numbers, we're aiming to know our number bonds to 5 (and some to 10) off by heart.

UTW - I wonder what your child can remember about Mary Anning? The children loved learning about dinosaurs and fossils. We had a video call with Farmer Rachel which helped us learn where our food comes from.

EAD - The children will soon be brining home their amazing clay animal sculptures! They've worked so hard to design, plan and create them.